Tag: Tracking

Facebook Says Its Intentions Were Pure with Those Rainbow Profile Pics
When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same sex marriage, Facebook was ablaze with status updates, link shares, and photo uploads. If you were on Facebook in the hours following...
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Skynet Is Real, and the NSA Uses It To Track Locations with Phone Metadata
When a spy agency decides to call one of its various tracking programs Skynet, it's just screwing with us, right? A troubling report about a journalist misidentified as a terror...
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Google Launches Upgraded URLs For AdWords Ads
Google announced the launch of new "Upgraded URLs" for AdWords Ads, which enable advertisers to spend less time managing tracking updates while reducing crawl and load times for th...
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Twitter Wants to Track Which Apps You Have on Your Phone; Here’s How to Stop It
Twitter has just added a section to its security & privacy terms that explains how the company is about the start "colle...
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Google Pays $17 Million To States Over ‘Safari-Gate’
Last year, Google was handed the largest fine for a single company in...
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Google Adds Auto-Event Tracking To Tag Manager
Google announced on Thursday that it has launched Auto-Event Tracking for Google Tag Manager, enabling users to measure events happening on the page without HTML or Javascript....
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Senator Al Franken’s Privacy Bill Is Approved By Senate Committee
We brought you word earlier this month that Sen. Al Franken was trying his hand at...
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Archify Is A Tool You Might Actually Want Tracking Everything You Do Online
Sometimes people actually wish everything they did was tracked online. That may be a hard concept for some to swallow, but surely you've encountered an experience where you ran acr...
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Google Tag Manager Lets You Consolidate Site Tags Into One Snippet Of Code
Google has announced the launch of Google Tag Manager, a new tool to consolidate the various tags you may use for your site into one...
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IBM’s New Augmented Reality App Will Track Your Grocery Shopping
If you simply can't get enough targeted advertising into your life, IBM's new augmented reality mobile shopping app is probably for you. IBM research scientists today announced th...
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Googler: Nobody Wants To Be Tracked Online
Last week, Google launched Google Consumer Surveys. These were designed b...
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Twitter Sells Past Tweets For Reference
Twitter is now offering access to 30 days of historical tweets through Gnip. The service, called 30-Day Replay, would be a handy tool...
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Is Facebook Tracking Everywhere You Go Online?
Is it possible that Facebook is tracking your web browsing activity, even when you are logged out? According to Australian hacker and writer Nik Cubrilovic, Facebook could know...
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South Park Does Steve Jobs Tonight, Looks Promising
Historically, it's not exactly been an honor to make a cameo on South Park.  Just ask Barbara Streisand, immortalized as MechaStreisand, a giant malevolent robot that hid a special...
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Apple Responds to Location Tracking (About Time)
Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so. This is the unequivocal opening statement from...
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